Another cause which aggravates taxes is the force of paying them in money at a certain tinge, and not in commodities at the most convenient seasons.
William Petty
2
As for religion, I die in the profession of that faith, and in the practice of such worship as I find established by the law of my country.
William Petty
3
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
William Petty
4
I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.
William Petty
5
It were good to know the geometrical content, figure and situation of all the lands of a kingdom, especially according to its most natural bounds.
William Petty
No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
William Petty
8
That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.
William Petty
9
The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.
William Petty
10
We incline, therefore, to think the parishes should be equal or near, because in the reformed religion the principal use of a church is to preach in.
William Petty
11
Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.
William Petty
12
Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself.
William Petty
